70 Lakhs capital

Let us approach this situation from another angle.

For the sake of argument, let us assume that
you are aware of a strategy that reliably provides 1% per month returns.

Without disclosing the strategy
(since, you justifiably do not wish to be copied),
can you answer a couple of Qs?

Q1. How much volume can it sustain (and continue to provide the 1% returns)?
Can it handle 20K per month? Yes? OK.
How about 200Cr per month? No? OK.
So, at what volume in between 20K and 200Cr will this strategy stop working (no longer provide 1% returns), and why?

Q2. What is/are the guarantee(s) that the market conditions necessary for this strategy will continue to be present say 3 months from now? How about a year from now?

Q3. Also, can you think of and suggest any approach acceptable to you,
upon following which, someone with relevant expertise can prove to you that,
the strategy you think will provide 1% returns, will not do so?
(if not, then probably only way you can find out the issues with the strategy is to risk actual money, and if it doesn’t work out, find out why it did not by not making 1% per month returns)

I am not sure that sharing one’s recent P&L (even if verified) achieves anything meaningful in this context as the strategies being deployed and the risks being undertaken are not evident.

The question isn’t -
~ “Have you ever achieved 1% return in a month?”

nor is it -
~ “What’s the highest return one can achieve in a month?”

Rather it is -
~ “minimum how much we can expect to earn per month in futures intraday trading”


Amidst all the various directions in which this topic-thread is exploding,
the following question/statement drives the discussion towards
one of the (IMHO) more productive/actionable directions. :slightly_smiling_face::+1:t4:

No, not that at all. I vaguely recall discussions with strategies, and the market conditions and challenges associated with them, previously on this forum. Feel free to share a direct link if you can recall/find the exact topic-threads.

FWIW, 1% per month returns are NOT something spectacular that needs investing in derivatives or complex instruments/strategies. It can be achieved by investing in T-Bills, GSECs, SDLs in the secondary market, with the invested capital exposed to near-zero risk (sovereign guarantee). Been there done that.

Regulars on TradingQnA would be bored with this pitch of mine by now. :sweat_smile:

Anyone hearing this possibility for the first time,
and wondering - What are the nuances and limits involved?
Search for past discussions on GSECs / SDLs / T-Bills in this forum.
For example this post.

@Jason_Castelino What i was (and still am) asserting is that,
in response to the original question that started this topic-thread,

…the following comment
(especially from someone who claims to not have 20K to trade) ,
sounds like it is setting unrealistic expectations -

Reading it again now,
perhaps a more charitable interpretation of the above comment could be as follows -

"If one cannot reliably achieve atleast “1% a month” returns in futures intraday trading,
then it is not worth spending time in such pursuits, i.e. one can achieve as much (or almost close to that) with less risk and with less time/focus/effort spent on an ongoing basis."